grandiloquence
/ɡranˈdɪləkwəns/
US pronunciation
American sound/ɡranˈdɪləkwəns/
ɡranˈdɪləkwəns
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- 4 syllables
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- 2nd syllable stress
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- Schwa vowel
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- Final e often stays silent
ɡran - ˈdɪləkwəns -> grandiloquence
Myanmar meaning
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grandiloquent / græn'dÇlǝkwǝnt / adj (fml derog )
စကားကြီး စကားကျယ်သုံးသော။ a grandiloquent speaker/ speech.
❏ grandiloquence /-ǝns / n [U] စကားကြီး စကားကျယ်။
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- grandiloquent / græn'dÇlǝkwǝnt / adj ( fml derog ) စကားကြီး စကားကျယ်သုံးသော။ a grandiloquent speaker/ speech. ❏ grandiloquence /-ǝns / n [U] စကားကြီး စကားကျယ်။
Synonyms
pompous, pretentious, verbose, long-winded, overbearing, aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, flowery (communication), fustian, haughty, high-flown, high-sounding, histrionic, inflated, lofty, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, purple, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, windbag, windy
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